INSIDE THIS WEEK Out with the dogs: The joys of dog ownership. Page 2 Bobcats beat Bears, 47-0; Cougars sweep Herlong. Page 3 LIKEUSON FACEBOOK Like the Paradise Post on Facebook and stay in the loop on local news, sports and more. VISIT FACEBOOK.COM/ Wednesday, October 2, 2019 75CENTS AN EDITION OF THE ENTERPRISE-RECORD » paradisepost.com PARADISEPOST PUBLIC SAFETY PARADISE Traffic stops lead CHIP gets grant to help rebuild to 6 arrests Paradise Community Village Staff reports Paradise Police arrested six people last week on an assort- ment of charges. Last Tuesday morning officers responded to a call in the area of Roe Road and Filbert Street for a man passed out in a vehicle. Officers were sent to the scene at about 4:42 a.m. and when they arrived they found a vehi- cle stopped at the intersection of Roe Road and Filbert Street. The vehicle was running and was in drive. Officers attempted to contact the driver, Joseph Franklin Ahl- gren, 28, but he did not respond to them calling his name and knocking on the vehicle’s win- dow. Police say saw what they be- lieved to be a glass pipe used to ingest a controlled substance in Ahlgren’s hands. Officers then reportedly opened the door and quickly turned the vehicle off. CONTRIBUTED Officers say they then woke Ahl- Paradise Community broke ground in September 2013 and was finished one year later. gren and took him out of the car. Soon after they say they de- termined he was under the in- By Rick Silva fluence of a controlled substance [email protected] and placed under arrest. In a @Post_RickSilva on Twitter search of the vehicle, police al- lege they located what they be- Paradise Community Village, lieved to be heroin. which opened in September 2013, Officers were unable to lo- looks like it will be coming back cate his driver’s license, but to Paradise. The 36-unit apartment soon transported and booked complex that was off Clark Road him into the Butte County Jail on Village Parkway, near Tall Pines for driving under the influence Bowling burned in the Camp Fire. of drugs, possession of a nar- Tall Pines and the Best Western cotic controlled substance and Hotel survived the fire, although possession of drug parapherna- the hotel did suffer some damage. lia. While at the Butte County Thanks to a $560,000 grant to Jail, police Ahlgren had pro- Community Housing Improvement vided them with one of his fam- Program (CHIP) from the North ily members’ name and birthday. Valley Community Foundation’s In addition to the above Butte Strong Fund and the Cal- charges, Ahlgren was also ar- ifornia Community Foundation, rested on the two misdemeanor the PCV looks to be coming back. warrants for his arrest and iden- A pair of $280,000 grants tity theft. from the two foundations will help CHIP ramp up production 2 arrested in on multi-family and single-fam- CVS parking lot ily housing projects. Prior to the Camp Fire, the Two people were arrested apartments featured a dishwasher, early Wednesday morning on stove, refrigerator, garbage dis- drug possession charges while posal, on-site laundry, and either in the CVS parking lot. Police say a porch or a balcony. The complex that at about 3:45 a.m. they saw also had a common room for par- Robert Levert, 35, and Crystal ties and a computer lab with the Brewster-Patterson, 37, in front Internet. of the closed business. The project had started in 2003, The pair told the police they but due to the economic downturn were charging a phone and wait- in 2008 was scaled back from its ing for a taxicab to pick them up. original plan that had included CHIP PROVIDED PHOTO In a search of the two, police al- soccer fields for Paradise Ridge lege that Brewster-Patterson had youth soccer. The PCV broke CHIP has secured a grant to help rebuild the Paradise Community Village, that was destroyed by the Camp Fire. a small bag of suspected meth- ground September 2012 and was amphetamine and a glass meth- finished roughly a year later. They say the funding also will bol- press release the grants help ad- where it is located. amphetamine pipe while Levert In a press release, announcing ster CHIP’s current homeowner- dress the community’s need for “Housing is one of our region’s was in possession of two hypo- the money, CHIP said that it will ship program, called Rural Self- housing, both within the burn top needs post-Camp Fire,” dermic needles and a metham- allow it to hire help to not only the Help, and develop new programs scar and the surrounding area; said O’Shaughnessy. “CHIP is phetamine pipe. Brewster-Pat- PCV but to build Creekside Place, specific to disaster recovery and re- strategically support recovery determined to tackle this need and terson was arrested for posses- a 101-unit senior complex in Chico building efforts. efforts, and build and maintain get families into permanent, stable sion of a controlled substance and develop up to three additional Seana O’Shaughnessy, presi- quality housing that is well-in- housing as quickly as possible. and possession of drug para- multi-family projects in the area. dent/CEO of CHIP noted in the tegrated into the community GRANT » PAGE 2 phernalia. Levert was arrested for possession of drug parapher- nalia. EDUCATION Registration stop leads to arrest PUSD report: 70 percent enrolled students live on the Ridge On Friday morning a traf- fic stop at Skyway and Birch Retiree medical costs 22, depending on ADA (average led to an arrest. Police say that daily attendance) funding. about 10:09 a.m. and officer to double pre-fire level In addition to the potential to a Stratton noticed that a Nissan loss of funding, the PUSD is look- Xterra driving on Skyway at ing at some increased costs due By Rick Silva Birch Street was displaying ex- to the fire. [email protected] pired registration in excess of six @Post_RickSilva on Twitter The report says that district months. transportation costs as a per- The officer stopped the According to the 2018-19 unau- centage of the budget are ex- driver William Lowrance, dited actuals that were presented pected to be higher as a result 41, of Morgan Hill. Police to the Paradise Unified School of transporting students outside learned that Lowrance’s driv- District on Monday morning, of district boundaries for multi- er’s license was suspended for not only is the enrollment about ple years. drunk driving and was placed 50 percent of pre-Camp Fire, but The PUSD’s retiree medical under arrest and a search of 70 percent of those who are at- costs as a percentage of the bud- his vehicle conducted. Officers tending PUSD schools are living get will more than double what allege that they found a glass- in Magalia or Paradise. was prior to the Camp Fire. Mc- smoking pipe, commonly asso- The report also points out that Cready also said that the aver- ciated with methamphetamine student enrollment in grades 9-12 CONTRIBUTED age cost of an FTE on the sal- use as well as a large amount is “significantly higher than those According to an audit report, 70percent of the students who attend PUSD ary schedule will “become artifi- of unsealed marijuana in the in the lower grades.” schools post-Camp Fire, live on the Ridge. The report also notes that high cially high based on the method vehicle. The report presented by Asst. school enrollment is significantly higher than it is at the lower levels. layoffs.” Police impounded Low- Supt. David McCready said that Total revenue is expected to be rance’s vehicle and booked while the district has full local year, they will see a decrease in McCready also said that the down in the 2019-20 school year him into Butte County Jail on control funding (LCCF) through some funding — like Special Ed- district could see its LCFF fund- by 10.9 percent while total expen- CRIME » PAGE 2 the end of the 2020-21 school ucation. ing to drop by 50 percent in 2021- ditures are down 18.1 percent. 2 | D NEWS | PARADISEPOST.COM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2019 Edwards. 34, and Christy OUT WITH THE DOGS Crime Colony, 39, they allegedly displayed nervous behav- FROM PAGE 1 ior. When the officer asked for consent to search the ve- The joys of dog ownership charges of driving on a sus- hicle Edwards denied him pended license, possession access. Later, officer, John of drug paraphernalia and Wilkey used his narcot- driving with an open con- ics detection K9 “Cash” to As you can see; dogs during that time didn’t til it started to get light By Rebecca Settergren tainer of marijuana. conduct an open-air sniff of really are my whole life. get any household chores and jumped up to check Contributed the exterior of the vehicle. At least they were be- done; like taking out the on Tops. Seeing the living Traffic stop leads K9 Cash reportedly alerted Roger Caras said, fore that terrible wild- kitchen garbage. room and kitchen in the to drug arrests the officers to the presence “Dogs are not our whole fire burned Paradise to I also left Jack’s cat light of the day was hor- of narcotics in the vehicle. life, but they make our the ground. I didn’t own box and a 15 -lb. bag of rifying. He had vomited A car with its high beams Based on probable lives whole.” my home but lived there cat food sitting on the at least a half dozen times on led to traffic stop and cause police conducted a In my case, however, for 22 years as a renter kitchen floor.